Changelog

Version 8 - July 13, 2026

Added

• Added horizontal/vertical bar orientation support, with vertical bars placing the icon at the bottom and hiding ability-name text.
• Added Horizontal Offset for attached tracked bars.

Updated

• Updated version of BetterTrackedBars with initial support for Midnight (12.1.0).
• Reworked active tracked bars to attach and skin Blizzard's native BuffBarCooldownViewer rows instead of rebuilding active fill and timer state manually.
• Updated tracked-bar source handling for newer Cooldown Viewer data so live aura, totem, icon, label, and cooldown identity refreshes are resolved more reliably.
• Updated Bar Drain Direction wording to use left/right labels for horizontal bars and top/bottom labels for vertical bars.
• Renamed detached sizing controls to Length and Thickness.
• Updated bars attached to another BTB bar to inherit the parent bar's horizontal or vertical orientation.

Fixed

• Fixed tracked bars intermittently failing to appear, stopping after first use, or requiring a reload before tracking again.
• Fixed spell-specific tracked-bar failures reported for effects such as Call Dreadstalkers, Demonic Tyrant, Consecration, Enrage/Rage, Shadowfiend, Healing Stream Totem, Healing Tide Totem, and Surging Totem.
• Fixed false active-state detection, including stale totem slots, that could make inactive bars show as active, display 0.0, or ignore Active Only visibility.
• Reduced Blizzard Cooldown Viewer taint risk by removing row-level visibility, cooldown-ID, and layout-refresh hooks.
• Fixed Hide When Mounted/Skyriding not hiding tracked bars in druid travel forms and vehicle/scripted ride states.

Removed

• Removed the unreliable active aura name option.

Version 7 - June 14, 2026

Added

• Added separate text size sliders for Ability Name and Duration Timer text, replacing the previous shared Font Size slider.

Updated

• Updated version of BetterTrackedBars for Midnight (12.0.7).

Version 6 - April 20, 2026

Updated

• Updated version of BetterTrackedBars for Midnight (12.0.5).

Version 5 - March 19, 2026

Added

• Added a Merge Variant Tracked Bars profile setting so colliding tracked-bar rows like Lunar Eclipse and Solar Eclipse can stay separate when desired.
• Added hover tooltips for active BetterTrackedBars tracked bars, plus a Show Active Bar Tooltips profile setting to enable or disable them.
• Added a Hide When Mounted/Skyriding option, including per-bar overrides in Edit Mode.
• Added hover tooltip descriptions for Settings options.

Updated

• Updated auto anchor-chain behavior in Active Only mode so visible bars collapse upward and re-anchor to the nearest active predecessor or the base viewer when earlier bars are hidden.

Fixed

• Fixed more cases where BetterTrackedBars could break Blizzard's built-in cooldown bars and throw Lua errors until you reloaded.
• Fixed inactive tracked bars appearing darker than the configured background opacity.
• Fixed active tracked bars so aura-variant names and icons now update correctly in combat for tracked bars like Roll the Bones buffs.

Version 4 - March 12, 2026

Added

• Added a new Bar Visibility selector with Always, In Combat, and Active Only modes, including per-bar overrides in Edit Mode.
• Added an explicit Show Minimap Button toggle in Settings.
• Added expanded typography controls for ability name, empty-state text, duration timer position, color, and opacity, timer tenths, and application-count color plus percent/point-size sizing.
• Added an Ability Name Color option in Profile Colors, including per-bar overrides in Edit Mode.
• Added optional specialization profiles with an Enable Specialization Profiles toggle and per-spec profile assignments.
• Added single-bar import/export, bar-to-bar settings copy, and profile switching from Edit Mode, including layout and anchor settings.
• Added a Delete a Bar action in Profiles so saved bar entries can be removed from the current profile individually.
• Added Discord and support link actions to the Settings panel.

Updated

• Rebuilt tracked bars as BTB-owned bars that use Blizzard's hidden viewer as a live data source.
• Updated inactive and preview behavior so discovered bars can show empty-state bars when inactive and preview bars while Edit Mode or Blizzard Cooldown Viewer settings are open.
• Updated specialization profile routing to be opt-in instead of always on.
• Updated per-bar style overrides to capture resolved profile values when overrides are enabled.
• Replaced the old inactive-bar toggle with the new Bar Visibility selector and moved inactive text behavior into ability-name empty-state options.
• Clarified scope wording by renaming per-profile sections from Global to Profile and surfacing specialization profile assignment controls separately.
• Renamed the color controls for active, background, and border styling to Bar Active Color, Bar Background Color, and Bar Border Color.
• Renamed fill labels to Bar Drain Direction, cleaned up application-count wording, and removed the ticker option temporarily.

Version 3 - March 3, 2026

Fixed

• Fixed cases where BetterTrackedBars could break Blizzard's built-in cooldown bars and throw Lua errors until you reloaded.

Version 2 - February 27, 2026

Updated

• Fixed a refactor-related performance regression and reduced CPU and memory usage during heavy tracked-bar update churn.

Fixed

• Resolved multiple Cooldown Viewer secret-value and taint-related Lua errors during aura, spell, and charge update flows.

Version 1 - February 26, 2026

Added

• Initial release of BetterTrackedBars for Midnight (12.0.1).